Picfair

Definitely a solid idea. Seems very similar to http://500px.com : where I have personally bought a few photos. One thing that kills their utility is the Search function is pretty useless. So, take a lesson if you have limited resources : make your search the most badass image search ever because users can't find relevant photos, they ain't buying nothin' Might be a good idea to glance at how they are rolling and yoink some ideas. As they do a lot of things well on the site. Comparatively, I dig how straight-forward PicFair is. A few friendly comments : Why do I have to search before I get filter controls? I think the initial sidebar might be better off showing me those and maybe just sliding a short and sweet one-liner right above the photo grid. In general, I wish the tags and such were surfaced higher as I wanted ways that did not involve searching to browse but I really had to force myself to click around to find a way. Also, it would be cool if when I clicked a color from below the tags if it loaded the color like it was a tag on a browse page. But, added to my list of photo resources!

This is my first non-US investment and I'm particularly enamored with it because not only is it giving power back to photographers, but it's also founded by a guy who was a total neophyte until he taught himself to code via General Assembly (another investment of mine - full disclosure). It's incredibly cool to see an investment empower a person to build a platform to then go and empower even more people.

Very well-designed. I'm not sure what inspired this but there have been several photo-related hunts posted recently. Here are a few since yesterday: - Twenty20 - Create your own Instagram storefront in a few clicks - Splashbase - Search & discover free, public domain, hi res photos - Foap - Authentic royalty free stock photos

Thanks for the nice comments, guys. Bit of background to Picfair, I taught @benjilanyado front-end and Rails while I was freelancing for General Assembly London about 18 months ago. During that time, he was working away on Picfair while I was running an education startup. Now the teacher and the student are reunited! Learn to code, it's very useful!

Love Picfair for a couple of reasons - Benji taught himself to code and built as he went; none of this "I'm the ideas guy who needs a dev" bullshit. That, and the fact Benji knows this space. Experience + desire. Can't beat it.

Beautiful site and great idea! Excited to see the community and picture quality continue to grow on the site!

Today I uploaded my photos to Picfair. I love the idea, I think it's great.